I need some ICCUP partner

It's another JudgeMathis brags about a moment of his life blog.

I think, if you already read them, or have not read I used to be extremely obese. Since I was heavy not even land mammoths of women would not consider taking a gander at me. But, this thread is not about how women recognize me because frankly the only thing I attract is hood rats and big girls.

Today, is just one of those casual days I stroll into the gym. I wore a black Stone Cold Steve Austin shirts from 7th grade (lol) with a polite hand gestures with words at the bottom of him saying, "Whoop Ass." I don't think I have the same sense of humor as the management. The general manager, and the fitness director kept glancing at me. So, after my shoulder workout I just go to the locker room and kept working out in a tank top, which I've done in the past, no biggie.

So, I workout finish my triceps/shoulder routine. I do some cardio for about 33 mins and head over to the sauna. Once I arrived, there was a man talking to a woman. The man is a pretty heavy set dude(he tells me he weighs 280) and the woman is a gym rat like myself, so I obviously know who she is since I always see her at the gym.

The man was talking about how he was dieting. Eating small portions a day 6 times a day. He was telling her about the meals he eats, but at some point he couldn't remember the name of a food he eats at breakfast. He said, "it looks like grains." While he was pausing to remember the name of the meal, I interrupted his train of thought, and said "Oatmeal?" He looked up at me, and said "Oatmeal. It must be the heat that's affecting me."

So, I enter a conversation with the man. We started talking about diets, and I told him I always eat a good big meal in the morning, then smaller portions during the day (4, 5 meals instead of 6). Afterward, I told him about how I used to weigh 276 lbs, and that currently I weigh at 205 (light heavy bitch). I show him a before picture that I have in my wallet (I usually show this to chicks so they can be like "daaaamn, you don't look like this anymore" ).

The lady had left after I told them how much weight I've lost. She came back, and as I was showing him a picture of me being 276. He shows it to her. She says, "This was you when you were fatter?" I laughed, and said "I would say a lot fatter."
She proceeded, "How much did you say you used to weigh?" Me: "205"
Her: "Wow, I would have put you in between 180-190."
Me: "Dang, I didn't think anyone saw me like that."
Him: "He said he does a lot of weights, so that's why he looks like that."
Her: "Yeah."
Me: "Ya. :D"

I left the sauna because it was blazing hot and also to get a bottle of water. But, I couldn't stop thinking "Damn, someone actually thought I was skinner than I usually think I am." I have a problem with my self esteem currently about how I look since I still got a muffin top . But, her comment made me feel really good about myself. Right now, I still have a big grin on my face thinking about it.

So far... In a year and 1 month I've accomplished so much that it makes me definitely feel so much better about the person I'm becoming.

I just got my computer repaired. It's working fine, but when I try to log in to some sites it will deny me access (i.e. mycokerewards.com, blizzard.com/store). I can't even enter AIM.

I know when I was installing SC to my computer (from the blizzard store ... some how I got access), it asked me if I wanted to block it, or not. I need this option for my all my other programs. So I can put most of them on unblock. :[ I need your help TL!

This is me when I was 16 years old, weighin about 276 lbs. I met really cool florida players during this picture.


This is when I was 18, weighin around the same weight.


This is me during the beginning of January. This is when I was going to start my adventures.


This is my current picture in the Teamliquid gallery on March 18, 2008.


This is when I started getting out of the Double X L t shirts. I still don't know why I bought the shirt so big, but I love it for the gym, and going to school.


This is me around late May? At least.


Sometime during June


This is a picture of me taken a few mins ago. Currently, I've dropped 64 lbs, and I'm doing my best job to keep the weight loss.

My goal right now is lose another 30 or 40 lbs. So, I can actually hit 182 lbs, or 172 lbs. I would love to be around 9-12% body fat.
I'd love to share my working out tips, and help out anyone who is struggling with being overweight. :-)

It's been quite a while since I last blogged my weight loss. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't really doing much to lose the weight, and I was just dieting well enough not to break the 40 mark.

One of the things that brought me back into considering my weight loss was my self image. I don't really have a bad look of myself when I see myself in the mirror. But, when I was going hardcore to the gym I noticed a huge change in my body. That was something I actually missed. Seeing my body progress the way it did actually made me feel better about looking at myself in the mirror.

Another thing that actually snapped me out of this semi-inactivity was going with partners. I feel like I shouldn't go with partners at all anymore because I then feel like I'm dependent on them to help me work out. I shouldn't feel that way since they're looking out for their interest as well(and me for mine). But, I didn't want to go through the hassle of hearing, "Yeah man I can't go today [excuse]." Even if there was no excuse, I felt like I could get things done a lot faster then with somebody else.

So now, I've reached a new level of my weight loss. I'm now at 50 lbs(weight loss), weighing in at 226 LBS(current pictures are on "You in a TL Shirt!" thread). I love how my body is shaping up, I can tell a big difference in my figure.

Till the next 10 LBS. :-) A little off topic but... I found out that I'm an uncle today. I'm going to see my nephew tomorrow !

I've noticed that people would look at me, and would usually say, "Damn this kid is fat, but he may be very inactive." That's not the case at all. I've proven myself plenty of times during these situations.

An example to this occasion would be in football(American). I'm not a bad player(I'm usually picked 4-5 after the WR, RB). Everyone knows who I am, and how I play. But, when people love to talk shit about how much they bench, and how their so fit I always laugh to myself.

So, one of the kids who I play with regularly kept calling someone else by my name, and he felt like it was an offense to be called that because he was slimmer than I. I'll quote him by saying, "How the fuck do I look like him? He's bigger than me. I'm what he'd look like after some NutriSystem diet." I started to laugh, because I'm cocky as hell. It just shows that I don't really take anyone seriously.

I asked him how much he benched, and quickly said, "295." I bunch 275 4 reps(and thats me maxing). When he said that, I was like... "WTF NO WAI." This kid looked like he could at least bench 160-180 LBS, and he looked like he couldn't keep up with me if we ran miles. So, after the first game of football, he decides to play Oline, while I'm playing Dline on his side. What happens? This 230 LBS train, pushed him like it was nothing. Every time we lined up together he'd bring his hands up as if he was going to get ready for a fight, and I'd easily just toss him away. After a few plays, he seem to be out of breathe when I was clearly not even sweating from the amount of pressure I was applying on him. From my experience, if this man was as strong as he said he was, why couldn't he just take me out so easily?

Because, I'm the fucking man.

gloatgloatgloatgloat. This is just one example of many where I was underestimated because of my size! I just thought it was cool to mention it!

What do you do when you lose a lot of games?

Lately, I've been just getting very mad. I've hit the walls a couple of times, and I don't think it does the wall justice().

When I was in school(term just finished), it was just easier when I lost a lot of games to just go study, and play later. Since, I'm not in school at the moment(school starts the 12th), I don't know what to do when I keep losing, and I don't to punch the wall anymore.

So, I'm here asking... What do you do when you get mad? So, that maybe I could do that for the rest of the week before school starts again.

The Strategy section on Teamliquid.net for helping me improve my game, and for the people who have played with me. I finally reached C- on ICCUP. I started to play again(heavily) in March.

I had to start playing D-/D just to get the feel for the game, and now I can play with D/D+.

Anyways, thank you teamliquid.

I've started playing again, and I've reached D+. But, I'm having a hard time getting further than 2,100. I'm trying to look for a team that has players around D - C- players to game with.

I've tried the search function, and the only thing that was available was Clan Art. So, what I'm trying to do with this blog is see if anyone will help me get into a clan who is active, and wants to play!

If anything, I'd like to start a clan with a few members who are D-/D/D+. It would be fun to have some games around the same level, and be able to help each other get better(even though SC2 is coming out).

EDIT:

I recently found my CDKEY for Starcraft, and I can play on Battle.net again.

Just going to fast forward to the present.

One of the things that I've been ashamed about in my life has always been my weight. In 2004, I used to be 16 years old with already 276 LBS.


This was back in 2004 at World Cyber Games Miami Qualifiers for Starcraft.

I always said I was going to lose weight, but I was never fully committed. For example, in my senior year of high school(2006) I said I was going to lose weight. The highest I've went was 20 pounds, and stayed 256 lbs the whole senior year. Once, I left high school I stayed the same weight, but I noticed that I was going back to my old eating habits.

In 2007, I went back to weighing 276 lbs. Starting in November 2007, I've noticed that I needed to do some changes in my life. But, I didn't really do much until January of 2008.

Since January, I've been going to the gym everyday, not drinking soda, stop eating chips, going to burger king, and other fast foods spots. I would noticed that I'd drop weight easily(without much cardio at the beginning of the month).

Now it's April 10th, 2008. I've lost 41 pounds, and I still want to lose another 35 more pounds to hit 200(for just a little bit before I really start doing harder work to get to 175). I used to not be able to lift the same amount of weights(245 lbs bench press, about 115-135 lbs on curl). I'm I can jog 2 miles without stopping(before I couldn't run 2 laps around a track).

So why am I posting this? For one, I feel very good about the results I'm doing. Secondly, I feel that if I can lose weight anyone else can(if they are heavy :D). Plus, I figured I would continue to post my advances in my weight loss. I feel like the more support I get, the stronger I'll become to reaching my goals.


This is what I look about 5-6 lbs ago(which isn't really a big change lol).

Anyways, till next time!

I would like to get better at Starcraft, and even when I lose I would like to continue to play (because I got addicted to it again). I'm a D-/D player who plays on ICCUP, and I can't play on battle.net.

I've been trying to find someone to play with so I could start getting better, but I have no luck. If anyone would like to help me get better, and play some games for the both of us could get better msg me either through pm, msn( imurkoreanbrotha@Yahoo.com ), or aim (im from 786).

I don't really like making blogs, but I figured if I wanted to get better might as well do it in the right place(that'd be team liquid).